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title: Eh dat skade eh wunt do nuttne fuh help eh fren, er try fuh run de B… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh dat skade eh wunt do nuttne fuh help eh fren, er try fuh run de Bear off. Who acts: Eh dat skade, nuttne fuh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 105

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Eh dat skade eh wunt do nuttne fuh help eh fren, er try fuh run de Bear off.

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**Who acts:** Eh dat skade, nuttne fuh · **What happens:** do, help, try, run off · **To what, where:** fren, de Bear

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This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eh dat skade, nuttne fuh), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg76586:6:105
# text = Eh dat skade eh wunt do nuttne fuh help eh fren, er try fuh run de Bear off.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	dat	dat	X	FW	_	3	compound	_	_
3	skade	skade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	eh	eh	X	FW	_	5	compound	_	_
5	wunt	wunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	nuttne	nuttne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
10	eh	eh	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	fren	fren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	er	er	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	_
14	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
15	fuh	fuh	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
16	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Bear	Bear	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	off	off	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | Eh dat skade and eh wunt |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **help** | present | nuttne fuh | fren |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fren=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **try** | infinitive | nuttne fuh *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **run off** *not said to happen* | infinitive | nuttne fuh *not said here* | de Bear |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Project Gutenberg book 76586 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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